11-letter words containing b, l, o, m, u
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- lubritorium — a place, as in a service station, for the lubrication of motor vehicles
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- misdoubtful — doubting; distrustful
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
- mumble mode — (jargon) The mode a program, piece of hardware, or other system is said to be in when it is still running and perhaps reacting to input and/or occasionally producing output (especially if it shouldn't), but in a way that appears wildly inappropriate to the task it is supposed to perform. Compare "off the trolley" and "deep space".
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musical box — music box.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- umbratilous — shadowy; faint
- unblossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.